The nurse can be very helpful to the patient and family by educating and reassuring them during the many tests needed to diagnose scleroderma pulmonary disease. The patient will be less anxious if ...

Not all patients with deterioration in pulmonary function tests have a progressive disease: 30% of patients develop progressive lung disease and only 16% will develop severe lung fibrosis (defined ...

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Based on these observations, Fairley and colleagues aimed to determine whether measuring the frailty of patients with scleroderma ... 1.1-1.8), pulmonary arterial hypertension (OR = 7.1; 95% ...

Professor Christopher Denton discusses key aspects of the 2024 British Society for Rheumatology guideline on managing systemic sclerosis.

Methods Using baseline data from the Scleroderma Lung Study I (SLS I; N=158), multivariate regression analyses were performed using the best subset selection method to identify one to five variable ...

He explained that the autoimmune condition causes tissue to thicken. My scleroderma was also causing interstitial lung disease, which made it hard to breathe. My mom, who had come with me to the ...

With about six months to go before the start of the 52nd ride, we now know the route for this year's RAGBRAI event. The route ...

Current epidemiology and treatment practices for pulmonary sarcoidosis in the U.S. based on real-world evidence ...

A pilot study of nearly three dozen scleroderma patients, published last year, counted eight transplant-related deaths, teaching researchers to take some extra safety steps including shielding lungs ...

The system was tested by (1) determining specificity and sensitivity in SSc cases and controls with scleroderma-like disorders ... abnormal nailfold capillaries, interstitial lung disease or pulmonary ...

Considering that scleroderma lesions mainly involve local tissues such as the skin and lungs, future studies should explore more precise cell delivery strategies such as local administration, to ...